“CONSENT” by Jennifer Funk (poetry, ’16)

An excerpt from “CONSENT by Jennifer Funk (poetry, ’16) published at Four Way Review:

CONSENT

As if you could dig it up like a carrot 
or shake it loose from the branches.  

As if you could thwack it in half 
like a coconut, could drink the milk

sloshing inside and be revived, as if you could command it 
onto your tongue, as if it had a taste,

as if it could be poured or caught or captured or held 
or worried loose like a tooth, a knot, a nail, as if it were an eye

fixed on a snake bisecting the path.  
As if it could be summoned and hooded,  […continue reading here]